Towards a science for adaptive defense: Revisit server protection

Zhisheng Hu, Ping Chen, Yang Lu, Minghui Zhu, Peng Liu

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Abstract

Suffering from the big "hit" by the Heartbleed attack, the society has learned one hard lesson, namely, the severity of zero-day continuous buffer over-read attacks. According to a survey on Heartbleed, 24-55% of HTTPS servers in the Alexa Top 1 Million were initially vulnerable to Heartbleed, including 44 of the Alexa Top 100. The Heartbleed attack is continuous buffer over-read: it usually lasts several hours, involving hundreds of thousands of probing (buffer over-read) requests. In most cases, a short period of time is insufficient for the attacker to achieve his/her goal. This paper presents our recent work on the development of adaptive defense systems which can practically defend against zero-day continuous buffer overread attacks; i.e., Heartbleed-like attacks and data structure manipulation attacks, and meanwhile whose cost-effectiveness is mathematically provable.

Original languageEnglish (US)
Title of host publicationProceedings - 2016 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing, IEEE CIC 2016
PublisherInstitute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.
Pages112-121
Number of pages10
ISBN (Electronic)9781509046072
DOIs
StatePublished - Jan 6 2017
Event2nd IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing, IEEE CIC 2016 - Pittsburgh, United States
Duration: Nov 1 2016Nov 3 2016

Publication series

NameProceedings - 2016 IEEE 2nd International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing, IEEE CIC 2016

Other

Other2nd IEEE International Conference on Collaboration and Internet Computing, IEEE CIC 2016
Country/TerritoryUnited States
CityPittsburgh
Period11/1/1611/3/16

All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes

  • Computer Networks and Communications
  • Safety, Risk, Reliability and Quality
  • Sociology and Political Science

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